Trump Supporter on CNN Blasts Jay Z/Kanye Video for Featuring “Mazel Tov Cocktails”

This past weekend, Jay Z performed at a Hillary Clinton Get Out the Vote event in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald Trump later attacked Jay Z over his use of “bad language” at the event; he criticized Clinton, too. Now, Scottie Nell Hughes–a Trump supporter and CNN political contributor–has continued calling out Jay Z. In an interview, she decried Jay, Kanye West, and Frank Ocean’s “anti-police” music video for “No Church in the Wild” (from Watch the Throne). “One of his main videos starts off with a crowd throwing mazel tov cocktails at the police,” Hughes said. Although Hughes corrected her “Molotov” pronunciation on Twitter, her slip-up does call back to Jay’s “Black Bar Mitzvahs/Mazel Tov” line on 2007’s “Roc Boys.” Watch a clip of Hughes’ Jay Z criticism below. Scroll down for the “No Church in the Wild” video.

Last month, another Trump supporter–Betsy McCaughey, a former Lieutenant Governor of New York–criticized Beyoncé’s lyrics on CNN. She called out Clinton for enjoying “Formation,” and quoted the song on air. Like her husband, Bey is a Clinton supporter, who also campaigned for the Democratic presidential candidate in Ohio.

Read “How Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Tap Into the Power of the Playlist” on the Pitch.

What is a “mazel tov cocktail” pic.twitter.com/xmTiBnoaia

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) November 7, 2016

Here is Hillary’s friend Jay-Z’s video throwing Molotov cocktails at police we were discussing last night at 12am https://t.co/sJjOreiHEv

— Scottie Nell Hughes (@scottienhughes) November 7, 2016

Watch Pitchfork.tv’s “The Short List: Hillary Clinton in Five Songs”:

Comments are closed.